What Is Stopping Us From Landing On Europa?

Remember 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? In the film, nine years after the Discovery’s disaster, Heywood Floyd, the scientist we already met in “2001,” embarks on the Leonov, a Russian spacecraft, for a joint expedition following the footsteps of the ill-fated Jupiter mission.
Arriving in orbit around the giant planet, the Leonov discovers traces of life on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. More importantly, it locates the missing spacecraft. The rebellious onboard computer HAL is reactivated, not without concern, by its original programmer.

Dave Bowman, now an ethereal being capable of traveling through space, visits Floyd and predicts that something wonderful will soon happen on Jupiter.
And indeed, something does happen. The monolith that orbited Jupiter in “2001” descends onto the planet, creates millions of copies of itself, and increases Jupiter’s mass, triggering a chain reaction that transforms it into a new star.
Why does the monolith perform this miracle?

The message Bowman dictates to Earth explains: “All these worlds…” he says, referring to the former moons of Jupiter made habitable by the new star’s warmth, “…are yours. Except Europa. Do not attempt to land on Europa.”
From here, it becomes clear that the mysterious aliens, the creators of the monolith, wanted to give a chance to the creatures of Europa, aiding their evolution as they did millennia ago with mankind’s ancestors.
You’ll admit it’s not easy to escape the suggestion of that “do not attempt to land on Europa.”
And wouldn’t you know it, what could only appear as a narrative cue in the film’s plot became a reality a few years later: official science recognized Europa as the most suitable world to harbor primitive forms of life.
Coincidence, or is there something more to it?
Yes, there’s an ocean beneath it all!
Europa boasts a secret hidden beneath its icy surface: an ocean of liquid water with the potential to unveil the mysteries of extraterrestrial life and reshape our understanding of the universe.

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